To increase the changeability of future production systems, assets have to provide a standardized representation of their capabilities. Therefore, the concept of I4.0 components was developed, which describes assets w...
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To increase the changeability of future production systems, assets have to provide a standardized representation of their capabilities. Therefore, the concept of I4.0 components was developed, which describes assets with an asset administration shell providing a self-description. Real-time I4.0 components, like safety critical systems or motion control applications, require a deterministic communication with bounded low latency. Moreover, they demand for redundant connections to achieve fault tolerance with respect to the network infrastructure and the components. The integration of redundancy mechanisms in realtime I4.0 components requires additional implementation and configuration effort, which has not been covered in detail yet. In this work, we extend the concept of asset administration shells to configure end-to-end redundancy between real-time I4.0 components. Thereby, we apply the new real-time communication technology Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) with focus on the standard IEEE 802.1CB. Finally, we evaluate the performance of the redundancy implementation in terms of the transmission offset between the primary frame and its duplicate.
The potential of additive manufacturing is increasingly investigated with regard to an application in combination with milling processes. However, for an economical use of this hybrid method, workpieces must be produc...
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The potential of additive manufacturing is increasingly investigated with regard to an application in combination with milling processes. However, for an economical use of this hybrid method, workpieces must be produced cost-efficiently and at the same time meet high quality requirements. In this paper, a combination of additive and subtractive technologies is presented, by which the demanded accuracies can be achieved. To further decrease currently high planning efforts, an existing CAM system is extended by modules for creating additional additive manufacturing steps. In this context, requirements for such a hybrid CAM system and its realization are derived and presented.
Debates around robots, both scientific and non-scientific, mostly put the human being in their focus. This is important and necessary to produce machines that humans can operate and interact with, and to do responsibl...
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Social media platforms have revolutionized communication and web-users behavior in the past. The cloud manufacturing paradigm is doing the same for job order and contract manufacturing in the present. This paper exami...
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Social media platforms have revolutionized communication and web-users behavior in the past. The cloud manufacturing paradigm is doing the same for job order and contract manufacturing in the present. This paper examines the similarities of both concepts and introduces a platform that can be perceived as a cloud manufacturing and a social media platform. Hereby, a more user-centered design was achieved to ensure user-acceptance.
This paper proposes a novel approach for automated planning of robotic MAG welding processes based on an adaptive gap model. The gap model describes the relation between welding parameters and a changing gap geometry ...
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This paper proposes a novel approach for automated planning of robotic MAG welding processes based on an adaptive gap model. The gap model describes the relation between welding parameters and a changing gap geometry resulting from deviations of relative part locations in a welding assembly. A matching process is performed between computer-aided design model and a measured point cloud of the welding assembly using an Iterative Closest Point algorithm to compute the actual gap geometry. Experimental validation for various gap geometries is demonstrated with an industrial robot equipped with stereo camera and welding gun indicating an increased weld quality.
Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies require innovative design paradigms and guidelines that exhaust the offered freedoms in geometry and material. The aim of the Design for Additive manufacturing is to provide de...
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Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies require innovative design paradigms and guidelines that exhaust the offered freedoms in geometry and material. The aim of the Design for Additive manufacturing is to provide design opportunities and to enhance workpiece properties taking into account constraints of the process, e.g. kinematics and limitations of print technology. Most AM applications are constrained to three-axis movements limiting the fabrication of workpieces layer by layer to one fixed building direction only. This causes limitations of strength properties, surface quality and the need of supporting structures. Multi-axis AM enables completely new design possibilities going beyond current optimization and design strategies of conventional AM workpieces. This innovation requires multiple design and manufacturing changes in the internal and external geometry of the workpiece as well as in machine and printing head technology. This paper identifies the requirements and capabilities of multi-axis AM and presents possible solutions to overcome the identified challenges. Preliminary results for multi-axis AM are described on an exemplary workpiece.
In order to enable robot systems to solve complex tasks autonomously, it is essential to model the environment in a sufficient way. This work describes a new approach to create a consistent environment model, using ne...
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In order to enable robot systems to solve complex tasks autonomously, it is essential to model the environment in a sufficient way. This work describes a new approach to create a consistent environment model, using next-best-view planning which combines the optimization of the space exploration and the object recognition task. The approach is designed for the automation of maintenance tasks, which is a challenging task for autonomous robotic systems. After a general overview of the developed system, we explain the theoretic foundations for building a consistent environment model which can be used for manipulation planning. The concept is validated by means of application-oriented examples.
In paper, “A review of research aspects of redundantly actuated parallel robotsw for enabling further applications,” (Mostashiri, N. et al),IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics,” vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 1259–1269, Jun. 2018,...
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In paper, “A review of research aspects of redundantly actuated parallel robotsw for enabling further applications,” (Mostashiri, N. et al),IEEE/ASME Trans. Mechatronics,” vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 1259–1269, Jun. 2018, the word “Robots” in the article title was misspelled as “Robotsw.”
Industrial Robots typically have an absolute accuracy in the range of millimeters and a repeatability in the range of tenths of a millimeter. The absolute accuracy can be improved towards the repeatability of the robo...
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In this paper, a novel approach for an ontological representation of continuous-path manufacturing tasks is presented on the example of robotic fillet welding. The representation specifies manufacturing information an...
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In this paper, a novel approach for an ontological representation of continuous-path manufacturing tasks is presented on the example of robotic fillet welding. The representation specifies manufacturing information and product related geometric constraints relevant for automatic program planning in robotic arc welding. The geometric constraints are transformed into simple continuous curve primitives such as lines, circular arcs and B-spline curves supporting the easy integration in robot program planning systems decoupled from a complex CAD environment. It also represents information on welding gaps along the joint geometry. Moreover, a method for automatic feature recognition based on rule- based pattern recognition is presented to automatically retrieve manufacturing information from the CAD model of the product and generate the respective manufacturing task specification. The method is evaluated in several test scenarios for welding product assemblies indicating the usability and effectiveness for automatic program planning in robotic welding.
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